One of the anomalies of the Democrat supermajority/Obama Administration has been that with such a preponderance of Democratic Power we have yet to see the kind of drive for gun control that shaped the first two years of the Clinton Administration. Part of that is because a good many of the so-called “Blue Dog” Democrats know that they can kiss their cushy jobs goodbye at even the hint that they might possibly consider voting for a gun control law. Part of it has been that Obama has been a weaker leader than we might have expected him to be eighteen months ago, and that he has had other priorities. Well, the long feared gun control beast may be about to be let out of its cage.
In the wake of the Times Square bombing (an act by persons of indeterminate religious/political ideology and/or national origin) Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., has come to the interesting conclusion that if a person can be put on a “no-fly” list for suspected terrorist involvement, why can’t they be put on a “no gun” list forbidding them from being able to purchase firearms? Months before he set out to bomb Times Square, it seems that Faisal Shahzad went to a gun shop and purchased a rifle. There was nothing illegal about this purchase. Shahzad was a legal US citizen and, at the time under suspicion of nothing. He was even allowed to travel back and forth to Pakistan about as easily as you or I would go to the grocer’s.
Be that as it may, in his Senatorial wisdom Lautenberg wishes to change this. His proposed law, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2009, would allow the Attorney General (Eric Holder, of the Black Panther Voter Intimidation Racketeering protection team) to:
• Provide the Attorney General with discretionary authority to deny the transfer or issuance of a firearm or firearm or explosives license or permit when a background check reveals that the purchaser is a known or suspected terrorist and the Attorney General reasonably believes that the person may use a firearm or explosives in connection with terrorism;
• Requires the Attorney General to issue guidelines describing the circumstances under which such discretionary authority will be used;
• Include due process safeguards that afford an affected person an opportunity to challenge a denial by the Attorney General; and
• Protect the sensitive information upon which terrorist watch lists are based.
A couple of things to point out. If the person in question is a known terrorist, he or she shouldn’t be denied their right to buy the gun: they should be taken into custody. Shahzad didn’t plant his bomb, then drop by the gun store on his way to the airport. His purchase was made long before his bomb, possibly even before he made the decision to become an Islamic Terrorist. What this actually does is give the AG the nearly unlimited power to deny anyone in the United States the right to purchase a firearm because, well, because. Maybe they are a dangerous Tea Party protestor, or vote Republican. Yes, there are supposed to be mechanisms built into the law to allow someone unjustly denied the right to purchase a firearm to challenge that, but if they work like such provisions do in other States/Municipalities with strict gun control you are more likely to get a Papal Indulgence than a gun once you have been denied it. One thing you can rest assured of: no one with the name of Shahzad or Hasan or Mohammed abu al Jihadi is going to be stopped from buying a gun by this law. That would be profiling, and profiling is wrong. On the other hand, we will simply have to trust AG Holder that he won’t use this against political opponents of the Administration. Just as we trusted him to prosecute the most egregious act of voter intimidation in the last 40 years. That worked out well, didn’t it?
Fellow Netizens, my friend Cbullitt of Soylent Green alerted me to an internet-wide blog protest in response to the Censorship of the cable cartoon show “South Park.” The image above, with permission from the designer Chris Muir, is scheduled to show up throughout the blogosphere at midnight tonight. Cbullitt wrote:
“I’m not an artist or Cartoonist, but Chris Muir is and Trey Parker and Matt Stone are. And Theo Van Gough was. Muir, whose work you see above, obviously does not ascribe to the dictum displayed in the cowardice of Comedy Central, the EU, and the U.S. Government under the last four administrations, namely: Feeding the crocodile in hopes that it will eat you last.”
To be truthful, I’ve never seen an episode of “South Park” although I understand its popularity due to its irreverent humor. The recent imposition of domestic sharia law on the writers of “South Park” for a joke involving the Prophet Muhammed is inexcusable in the Land of the Free and the Home of the First Amendment.
Let’s celebrate our First Amendment Rights before we lose them with an Overnight Open Thread.
A new book by author Lowell Gallin titled “Cracking the Qur’an Code” uses the koran to provide proof that even Islamic doctrine affirms G-d’s three covenants with Israel, involving the Land, the Torah and the People.
The book is based on the teachings of Dr. Asher Eder of Jerusalem and Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi of Rome, both of whom co-founded and co-chair the Islam-Israel Fellowship of the Root and Branch Association, Ltd.“Let this book play an important role in letting people stand against jihad, the murder of innocent people and Holocaust denial,” says journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, who faces charges of sedition and the like in his native Bangladesh for his pro-Jewish work. He authored a book last year entitled Inside Madrassa, in which he provides extensive and little-known information on education in madrassas [Moslem schools], the Jihadist orientation, hate speech and radical Islam taught there.
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The book shows how the Deity in the Qur’an commands Muslims to honor His three covenants with Israel, concerning the Land, Torah and People. The first chapter of the book’s Section Three, for instance, provides 103 pages of quotes and commentaries from the Qur’an affirming the Divine land covenant with Israel.
Verse 137 of Sura 7, for instance, states, “We enabled the oppressed people [Israel] to inherit the land, east and west, and we blessed it. The blessed commands of your Lord were thus fulfilled for the Children of Israel, to reward them for their steadfastness, and we annihilated the works of Pharaoh and his people and everything they harvested.”
Author Gallin provides a translation of this verse by Professor Abdullah Yusuf Ali, with Gallin’s own explanatory notes in brackets: “And We [the Lord] made a people [Children of Israel] considered weak (and of no account) inheritors of lands in both East and West [east and west banks of the Jordan], lands whereon We sent down Our blessings. The fair promise of thy [Muhammad’s and Muslims’] Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience and constancy, and We leveled to the ground the great Works and fine buildings which Pharaoh and his people [Egyptians] erected (with such pride)”.
Uh oh! Something tells me that Shariff don’t like it.
And as if that weren’t enough for the Mohamadians; Palestinian Zionist Organization is Founded
Statements on the new website include warnings that a new PA state, if it were to arise, would “become the most terrorist state in the world… The Palestinians don’t believe in a two-state solution; they only believe in a one-state solution – a land called Palestine [which] does not involve any Jewishness.”
Issa, who now lives in the United States, explains that the international community is blind “to what’s truly going on in this Middle East conflict. [I hope] to make a difference by shining a different kind of light on the Palestinian-Israeli situation.”
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